Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1895, Page 3

3 up’ fm) quickly as ————— ee : ~ THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1895-TWELVE PAGES. SPECIAL NOTICES. SPECIAL SERVICE AND SERMON=ST. JOHN'S Church, 16th and. H stg. Washington, D. C., * THURSDAY EVENING,’ ‘Feb. 28,.8€ 8 e'clock. (xSermon by Rev. Otis A. Glazebrook, D.D., rector ‘of St. John’s Church, Elizabeth, It HOLD ELL WILL and test circle on THURSDAY Attendance lim{ted. N.S. a developing VENING EVENING at 1914 Pa. ave. Private sittings daily. SPIRITUALISM—GEORGE_ PERKINS, THE WON- derful_medium~Test cirele THIS EVENING, also FRIDAY, $8. Rend.ngs daily. 512 E. Sanday my hall 908 Penn. av 30, 7:30. 1t* RITUALISM—MISS MAGGIE GAULE OF BAL- DAY timore, the wonderfal medium, every during’ day, for private sittings, 905 H st. nw. FRIDAY NIGHT, Wonn's Hall, 721 6th st. Every reste THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE STOCKHOLD- ers of the National Life Insurance Company of the United States of America, for the election of 8, Sun building, 131! D.C., TUESDAY, March 12, "1895, "at 10 o'clock a.m.” (f28-10t)" J. Ht. NITCHIE, Secretary. LODGE, NO. 15, 1. 0. 0. F.—A SPECIAL is called at Odd Fellows’ Hall for THIS ING at 7 o'clock to arrange for attendance the funeral of our deceased brother, Henry il. By order of noble grand. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS, EXCELSIOR. iE, No. 14.—A special meeting will be held on THURS- DAY, Feb. 3, 1495, ut 7:30 p.m., for the pur- Ppse pf attendinx the funeral of our late brother, Henry Heil. By order of aiod GEORGE 8S. LEWIS, MASONIC.—A_ SPECIAL COMMUNI New Jerusalem Lodge, No. 9, F. A. A. be held at Masonic ‘Temple FRIDAY, March 1, 1895, at 1:30 o'clock p-m., for the ‘purpose of attending the funeral of our late brother, Henry Heil. Brethren of sister lodges fraternally in- vited. By order of W. M. it W. E. NN! WASHINGTON DIVISION, NO. 1, U. K. P— Sir Knights, you are requested ‘to meet at your armory, 417 7th st. n.w., at 2 o'clock, MARCH 1, for the purpose of attending the funeral of our late brother, Sir Kt. H. Heil. Sister div. cor- invited to attend. It REUNION OF THE U. OF VA. ALUMNI AT THE Ebbitt House, SATURDAY, § o'clock red parlor ; retary Herbert will preside. ts elty are urged to be preswnt. : ¥ CABELL, President. ‘All alumni It COULD NOT BE BE’ Were there a well of shirtmaking wisdom and we drank from it continuously we could not be better shirtmakers, TEN years at it, and 194,000 erders on our Looks—not one returned. uur $1.50 Shirts to order are the equal of any shirts made . hirt trade has grown until we are driven up men’s furgistings, which are now on the Potomac on SATURDAY, 2d of March, at 6 p.m., and every ‘Tuesday, Thursday and Sat- SPECIAL NOTICES. -. —we make a specialty of domestic finish. State if you prefer it. But we do not make capital out of small, insignificant things. 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Parker, a young colored man, was given a hearing in Judge Miller's court yesterday on a charge of swin- dling. The complaint was made by Mrs. Frances Wells of Georgetown, and the amount involved was $300. Parker, it. is charged, persuaded Mrs. Wells to invest her money in stocks. His investments, it was charged, were to have been made in Philadelphia trolley car stock. Mrs. Wells charged that each month Parker would bring her $10 or $20 as profits and she re- turned the money to him to add to the prin- cipal. paige Miller held the case for the grand jury, and fixed the bond at $1,000. Castoria For Infants and Children. CASTORIA PROMOTES DIGESTION, and over- comes Flatulency, Constipation, Scur Stomach, Diarrhoza and Feverlshness. Thus the child is rendered healthy and its sleep NATURAL. CAS- TORIA contains no morphine or other narcotic property. “CASTORIA 1s so well adapted to children that I recommeid it as superior to any prescription krown to me."” H. A. ARCHER, M.D., 111 So. Oxford st., Brooklyn, N. ¥. “For several years I have recommended ‘Casto- ria,’ and shall always continue to do so, as it has invariably produced beneficial results.’ EDWIN F. PARDEE, M.D., 125th st. and 7th ave., New York city. WOMEN AND DIVORCE They Want a Share in Framing the Laws. WHEN MARRIAGE IS A FAILURE Some Well-Known Women Ex- press Radical Views. AN INTERESTING _ TALK Another great reform movement occupied the attention of the National Council of Women at its morning session today. Hav- Ing disposed of dress reform and moral re- form at the two sessions yesterday, the council this morning took up the matter of divorce reform, and a number of valu- able suggestions were made. The council bas a standing committee on the subject of divorce reform, and the discussion today was opened by the reading of the commit- tee’s report by its chairman, Mrs. Ellen Battelle Dietrick of Massachusetts. In beginning her report Mrs. Dietrick said that the committee deprecated any further legislation tending to restrict di- vorce until women, who are vitally inter- ested in the matter, have been given an epportunity to be heard. Statistics show that a large majority of divorces are grant- ed on the application of women who charge | cruelty, desertion and drunkenness. In these three charges the proportion of di- vorces granted shows that men are the chief offenders, and it does not seem fair that men alone should have a voice in enacting divorce laws. In the course of her report Mrs. Dietrick said that in ac- Mrs. Grannis. Rev. Anna Shaw. cordance with the instructions of the ex- ecutive committee of the council, the chair- man sent forty-eight letters to the gov- ernors of states and territories, asking each to call the attention of his legislature to the situation concerning divorce laws, and requesting the appointment of a com- mittee to consicer the matter, said commit- tee to consist of an equal number of men and women. As only thirteen replies were received up to December, 18, the chair- man sent thirty-five more letters to these officials, including all newly elected gov- ernors, making a total of eighty-three let- ters sent. Replies have been received from seventeen cut of ferty-eight governors. “It should be noted,” says the report, “that the letters were sent in the name of this council of representative women of the United States; and that the subject pre- sented was one vitally concerning the hap- piness and welfare of 70,000,00) people, half of whom are of the female sex. It should be thoughtfully noted that an op- portunity was there given to each guber- natorial servant of the people in forty- eight sections of cur country, to express his sense of the justice of his employers’ requests. Ard, with these points in mind, women should thoughtfully consider the significance of the fact that thirty-one of thes» masculine servants of the people made no response whatever to this just request sent by representative women. Governors Who Are Too Busy. “The governor of South Dakota replied curtly that his time was so engrossed with ‘state matters’ that he could not personally reply, but would give the matter due con- sideration when he had leisure. He has not yet had leisure. Does not this guberna- torial servant of the people need some in- struction from his’ employers as to what now constitutes state matters? Our trouble is that divorce has been made a ‘state mat- ter’ by men, without asking our permis- sion. “The governor cf Idaho wrote: ‘At pres- ent I am too busy to give this matter my attention, but will try at some future time to take it up with you.’ That future time has not yet arrived. “The governor of Iowa wrote: ‘The di- vorce laws of lowa I believe to be just and considerate and highly satisfactory to the people of our state. My official duties are ; Such as to occupy my entire time, so that it is impossible for me to be of any service to you in the direction indicated.’ Yet iowa is one of the states which have re- cently formed a commission of men to con- sider making Iowa divorce laws uniform with those of ail other states. What guar- antee have we that the tinkering of this commission will be highly satisfactory to the women of Iowa? And if it is not the official duty of a public servant of the peo- ple to promote justice among the people, why does he exist? Ten governors replied politely and evasively that they would give the request ‘careful attention.’ Only two, Gov. Greenhalge of Massachusetts and Goy. Brown of Rhode Island, wrote cordial and manly responses, promising to do all in their power to carry out the moderate and just request of the Woman’s Council. The governor of South Carolina wrote that his state had no divorce laws at all, and that, ‘while the absence of divorce might work a few hardships, we are better satis- fied than our neighboring states, which have divorce laws.’ But when we remem- ber that over 6S per cent of the divorces in the United States during twenty years were asked for by wives, on account of cruel treatment from their husbands, some doubts present themselves as to whether it might not be better to hear from. the Women than from the men of South Caro- lina on this point. The governor of Dela- ware alone wrote very fully, giving his opinion of both marriage and divorce, but he neglected to state whether or not he would comply with the council’s request. Women’s Opinions Disregarded. “Now, if women are gifted with intelli- gence above that of children, the total re- sults of this correspondence, together with the fact that twenty-three states have appointed bodies of men to tinker with divorce laws, without appointing a woman in any one of them, ought to show women in just what estimation the men of the United States hold their opinions. We might as well face the fact, that the offi- cial servants of the United States cherish frank contempt for woman’s opinions and wishes, and that, too, in regard to a mat- ter which concerns the welfare of women far more vitally than it does the welfare of men, as the statistics given in the for- mer report of your divorce committee bear witness. The one thing women should deprecate is having men make any new laws or fresh provisions for women’s pro- tection. The only safe protection is self- protection. Any other is apt to prove sim- ply a fresh chain, an added stumbling block in the path of righteous freedom. Many a woman, tempted to ride in a,car- riage, woutd be immensely healthier’ and happier to use her own yeet. Many an individual could live more nobly and hap- pily. were she but allowed to express her own opinion as to how she ought to live.” ‘The report was signed by Mrs. Dietrick, Mrs. Mary A. Livermore and Mrs. Fanny B. Ames. Marriage and Divorce. Following the report Mrs. Dietrick read a paper on the subject, ‘“Zquality in Leg- islation Concerning Divorce.” Inasmuch as marriage and divorce are so closely con- nected, Mrs. Dietrick discussed the two together. In both, she said, as women may be said to be more interested than men, it is but right that they should be given equal voice with men in the making of laws bear- ing upon either marriage or divorce. She presented quite an exhaustive resume of marriage and divorce laws from the earl- lest times down to the present, and con- sidered carefully the origin and history of the idea of man’s ownership over his wife's life and property. Looking at the question from all sides, Mrs. Dietrick showed how it was all nothing but argument in favor of equality between the sexes in all legisla- tion, dealing with these two important sub- jects. LS Mrs. Grannis’ Views. ‘The general discussion of the subject of the morning was begun by Mrs, Elizabeth B. Grannis of New York, ident of “The National Civilization! League for “he Promotion of Social Purity?» Mts. Grannis during the last few years has taken a very advanced position in efforts porethe: purifi- cation of the metropolis and her work has made many enemies ai welf'as friends. In the course of her papey) on: divorce re- form this morning Mrs. Syennls said: “If we had a universal’ marriage and divorce law throughout the federal govern- ment. and that law reco; no diyorce except for the sin of adultery, parents and guardians would, in alt Probability, dis- charge their duties and -privil to the young with greater care concerning prepar- ation and fitness for the most important relationship man and. woman can assume. The principle that children without any training concerning: the mst vital rela- tionship in life should be permitted to enter into that solemn bond of matrimony with no preparation or training for the same is wholly wrong. Children ‘should be taugnt from their infancy that they are liable, if not expected, to assume the privileges and | responsibilities of marfied life. There is no greater stigma upon our Christian civil- ization than the result of lawlessness of motives and-even intrigues, which enter unblushingly into the marriage nuptials, particularly in high social life. Let us re- member always that it is the leaders in the church and those powerful in social in- fluence who set the example and create che standard which the masses are, alas, too apt to follow.” = In conclusion Mrs. Grannis said: “The only question to be considered is what con- stitutes the freedom and equality of wo- man with man. Women should be ap- pointed as judges, and on every board of arbitration where any interest is involved pertaining alike to woman as to man. Miss Shinn Takes Radical Ground. Mrs. Grannis’ paper was followed by an- other read by Miss Harriet A. Shinn of Illinois, delegate of the National Associa- tion of Women Stenographers. Miss Shinn took a very radical view of the question, but her views were listened to with the closest attention. Miss Shinn said in the course of her speech: “I ask the women of this council to create a broader and hence a truer public sentiment in favor of that woman or man whose domestic life is of so unhappy a character, of so unwholesome a condition as to render imperative a legal and final separation. I ask this of the national council because it is national and works along the broadest lines; it seeks to pro- muigate those principles which ‘underlie the highest national good—the center from which those lines radiate is the home. Everything that will protect and build, make pure and strong this center of the nation must be encouraged; everything that even tends to degrade, pollute and destroy the home must be carefully and reugiously guarded against. “Each member of a community is entitled to receive the best help that his neighbor can give. But the best and highest use- fulmess cannot come from those whose lives are a continual struggle to hide from the world the blighted life or a desecrated hearthstone. Self-respect is the first re- quisite of character. What remnant of self-respect can that woman have who shields from a harsh and critical public the fact that she is living with a drunken or dissolute husband? “In this country when a woman’s husband dies she is condoled with or-envied, as the case nay be, but she goes on her way un- molested and unannoyed by public opinion. But, if he only runs away, and does not die, woe unto her! Havingybeen abandoned © May not again hope for happiness; if she attempts it certain parts of the Chris- tian chureh proceed at once, if not to burn her alive, at least to rvast her thoroughly. My sisters, the churches of the land would die but for the work and co-eperation of woman; two-thirds of their members are women. Have you given the power to the snen Or the church to sey that a woman having once missed’ happiness, through no Tault of hers, shall be devarred from it for- ever after? Is it your doing that she is thrust out to get what happiness she can, where she can, and as best she can? If this ts not your doing, what are you doing for truth and justice, those principles by which alone we shall be led into the broad, sweet fields of freedem? Is it not time that so large a constituency of the church should he -represcnted? “The parties to an unfortunate or un- happy marriage contract are entitled to re- lief on their own account; but the presence of children makes it a question not of de- sirability, but of necessity, that those rela- tions be severed and the children removed to a clearer, purer atunosphere than sur- rounds the home that is built and founded on something else than love. Over the school house doors in many of the towns of Switzerland is written: ‘Dedicated to the children of the town.’ A truthful inscrip- tion to be written over many, many homes in our land would be: ‘Dedicated to the dollar.” “On women devolves in a large measure the improvement of the race by making it possible that children be nurtured and i up in the proper psychological at- and this you mi do by creating a public sentiment in favor of better—ves, the best, p conditions in which to rear childre ‘The state looks after the preperty rights of children, but in what eoort are the spiritual rights of the child adjudicated? There is no such court save public sentiment. Any law is a dead letter unless public sentiment enferces it. Public sentiment has been careful to have Jaws enacted and enforced against the disease known as lumpy jaw in cattle. What is that same public sentiment doing for the lumpy-jawed childven that are the product of loveless marriages and poisoned home atmosphere? Children are not voluntary members of the family. they have no voice in the matter, and, having heen brought here without their consent, they have ar undoubted right to an untainted home at- mospnere, a clean and pure spiritual en- vironment. Help to make it easier for that mother or that father whose hore is no longer a home, to give these improved con- ditions to the worse than orphared chil- dren, by apholdiag and encouraging separa- tion from tho un thy husband or wife. At the conclusion of Miss Shinn’s paper some formal announcements were made, and then Miss Kate Field was introduced to the council. Field made a brief speech, in which she said that she had heard the statement that she was not in- terested in the werk of the council. This statement she desired to refute, for she was a firm believer in the truth that in- dividual development makes national de- velopment,’ and the Council of Women is doing a grand work in this matter. By this time the attendance at the meet- ing had grown to very large proportions and almost every seat in the hall was filled. 2 Miss Anthony Talks. The subject at this point was thrown open for general discussion, and there were calls from the floor for Miss Susan B. Anthony, who occupies a prominent place on the platform at all the meetings. Miss Anthony is always ready for any emerg- ency, and seems able to speak well on any subject, no matter what it, may be. Miss Anthony proved this again by talking earnestly on the subject df the need for more just and equitable divorce laws. She related several incidents where divorce had proved @ positive blessing: The law, she said, did not step in to prevent ill-advised marriages, and so it should not compel men and women to live togetHer in bond- age. Miss Kate Field, The discussion was continued by Miss Kate Field, who was also called upon to speak. In the course of her remarks she said that, in her opinion, the Jaws of the District of Columbia, so far as they affect women, are about as bad as they can be. She urged the council to usé their influence to better the condition of their sisters in the District. She also said*'that in dealing with the divorce problem, the best way is to begin at the beginning and to regulate marriage itself, and she made an earnest tea for a national marriage law. “This council,” said Mrs. Sewall, “seems to have implicit confidence in the opinions of the unmarried,” as there were loud cries from the audience for Rev. Miss Ida C. Hultin. Miss Hultin made an eloquent speech ad- vocating a more curnest consideratio2 of the duties of married life. Young men and women are not taught a proper regard for the responsibilities of the new estaie. The Loy and girl should- be educated for pos- sible fatherhood and n:otherhood aa well as fer business and professional life. Rev. Anna H. Shaw Talks. Eev. Auna H. Shaw, another spinster, was then called upon to give her views on the subject. Miss Shaw said that the chief need is for reform in marriage laws. Uh- til we do away with the idea of buying and selling in matrimony we shall never get at the root of the evil. In the case of a New York girl of vast wealth who fs shortly to wed a titled foreigner, the only regret ex- pressed, said Mias Shaw, is that she is go- ing to take her great fortune out of the country, not that the country will lose a fine woman. Bank accounts are as the most important elements in matri- mony today. Miss Shaw said that for nine- tenths of the marriages that had come under her observation she had little more respect than she would have for the same sort of life lived outside of the so-called marriage relation. The discussion was continued by Mrs. Isabella Charles Davis and by Mrs. Sewall, who said that the courcil did not stand as the advocate of “easy divorce,” nor only as_the meuthpiece of woman’s wrongs. It did stand for the truth that men and wo- men are equally interested in the matter of marriage snd divoree, and that the prob- lems presented by these two features of life can never be satisfactorily solved un- Jess: the views of men and women alike are taken into consideration. Mrs. Cheney of New Hampshire, Mrs. Grannis and Mrs. Kate Brownlee Sherwood of Ohio discussed the subject, and the dis- cussion was brought to a close by Mrs. Dietrick, and after the announcement of the evening session the meeting adjourned. Emmeline B. Wells, the editor of the Woman's Exponent of Salt Lake City, was today presented with a great bunch of roses by the Utah delegates, it being her birthday. Mrs. Wells is the leader of her delegation. Tonight's Session. ‘Tke program for the evening session, at which the Countess of Aberdeen will also speak, is as follows: Religion—Women’s Foreign Missionary Union of Friends.—“Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.” Presiding officer, Hanneh J. Bailey. ‘Woman's Mission to the Church as Minister and Missionary,” Eliza C. Armstrong, Indiana. z Peace—Universal Peace Union. Presiding officer, Hannah J. Bailey. “Peace Work in Its Relation to Woman,” Hannah J. Bailey, Maine; “The Growth of Peace Principles’ and Methods of Propagating Tkem,” Belva A. Lockwood, District’ of Columbia. Complete List of Officers, The complete election of officers of the National Council of Women, as announced to the council, to serve for the coming three years, was as follows: President, Mary Lowe Dickinson,New York; vice pres- ident, Anna H. Shaw, Pennsylvania; cor- responding secretary, Louise Barnum Rob- bins, Michigan; first recording secretary, Emeline Burlingame Cheney, Maine; second recording secretary, Helen Flint Bristol, I- lnois; treasurer, Hannah J. Bailey, Maine. ‘The offiecrs-elect will be installed on Satur- day morning. — NOT SMALLPOX. A Premature Scare is Set at Rest To- any. : According to the report of Dr. Elliott, the physician in charge of the smallpox hos- pital, the smallpox scare yesterday was a little premature. Bettie Rich, the sixteen- year-old colored patient, who was sent to the hospital as a patient, he says has not got the smalipox. Yesterday the health cefficials reported that she had the disease, and, as printed in yesterday's Star, thought the case was a remarkable one, because of the fact that only a few days ago she was discharged from the hospital as cured. Upon an investigation of the case the offi- cials discovered that they were mistaken in reporting that Dr. Walls had passed upon the case before, as he did not see her at the time she was sent to the hospital. Word from the hospital this morning was to the effect that wien the girl was in the hcépital last month she had a bona fide cuse of smallpox, and the serum treatment was administered. The present eruptions on the girl's face, it is thought, is proba- tly one of the remote effects of this treat- ment. Dr. Bradfield’s diagnosis of the girl's case two days ago is borne out by the girl's present illness, and the smallpox scare was the result of the eruptions which appeared. Notwithstanding the fact that the girl has 1.0t got the smallpox she is kept in the smallpox hospital, and is likely to remain there several days. She is isolated from the other patients, and the physicians think there is no danger in her remaining there. Her lungs are slightly congested, and she has a fever. The news from the hospital this morning was very encourag- ing to the health officer, who had -fears that Bettie had the smallpox, and that a rumber of persons having been exposed to her there might have been a fresh out- break of the disease. _ THE COURTS, Equity Court No. 1—Judge @ox. Wissman agt. Scaggs; complainant al- lowed to deposit $x) as security for costs. Ramsey agt. Fidelity Building and Lean Association; Henry I. Meador made party complainant. Ball agt. Washington Bene- ficial Endowment Association and Quarles agt. same; Receiver Gilbert admitted as party defendant. Cole agt. Cole; auditor’s report confirmed and distribution ordered. Scherer agt. Fidelity Building, Loan and Investment Association; delivery to Frank B. Knibb of her deposit book. Equity Court No. 2—Judge Hagner. Girouard agt. Girouard; testimony before R. E. Lee, examiner, ordered taken. Rus- sell agt. Russell; order staying proceedings until further order. Circuit Court No: 1—Judge Bradley. Wm. C. Downey et al. agt. R. K. Hel- phenstine; on hearing. New Brunswick Rubber Company agt. Walker; judgment by default. Cook & Jarboe agt. La Tour- rette; do. Weilar & Chock agt. Garne! defendant called and judgment for plat tiffs; judgment of condemnation of pro- ceeds of sale in hands of marshal,and judg- ment for $32.15 cost of Court of Appeals as per mandate. Circuit Court-No. 2—Chief Justice Bingham. Brown, administratrix, agt, Washington and Georgetown Railroad Company; on hearing. Criminal Court No. 2—Judge Cole. United States -agt. W. Calvin Chase, libel; on hearing. Probate Court—Judge. Hagner. Estate of Salome Holmes; will and peti- tion for probate filed. Estate of Jno. C. Walter; invertory filed. In re Emma Wil- son; orphan petition for appointment of guardian filed. Estate of Daniel J. Sexton; executor bonded and qualified. Estate of Elizabeth Townsend; first account of ad- ministrator passed. Estate of Augustus Pchlers; will fully proved. Estate of Lena S. Baldwin; proof of publication. Estate of Mary J. McCcy; will proved. Estate of John Campbell; will filed and fully proved. Estate of Clara Morris; final notice issued naming March 22 for settling estate. Es- tate of Mary Harrington; do. ——— OVER TWENTY KILLED. Explosion in a New Mexico Mine. A terrific explosion of gas occurred in the White Ash mines of the Santa Fe Railroad Company, three miles from Cerrilos, N. M., yesterday, causing the death of over twen- ty miners. ‘The first intimation of the disaster was a muffied roar and clouds of smoke and dust rolling from the mouth of the mine. Nearly 300 men are employed in the mine, but only fifty were at work when the explosion oc- curred. Only eleven of them escaped alive. Relays of men worked heroically to reach those who are still imprisoned in the mine, put little progress could be made on account ef the gas, which permeated every shaft and overpowered the workers in a short time. . ‘The scene at the mouth of the shaft after the explosion was heartrending. Men cursed, while women cried and prayed for fathers, husbands and brothers who were entombed alive or brought up dead. One woman, supposing her husband to have been killed, tried to commit suicide by throwing herself in front of a moving train. Her husband was afterward rescued alive, and the reaction from insane grief to deli- rious joy was nearly fatal. The mine was known to be badly venti- lated and full of bad air and gas, and a catastrophe of this kind has been fre- quently predicted. A bill was introduced in the New Mexico legislature yesterday afternoon to appro- priate $5,000 for the relief of the widows and orphans. ——_—_+ e+ ____ Divorce Granted. In the case of George M. Hgrris against Kate R. Harris, filed on the 15th of May, 1898, praying for a divorce, Judge Hagner has granted the relief prayed, dismiss- ing the cross petition filed by Mrs. Harris on the 6th day of January, 1894. The papers in the case were withheld from publication. Fatal DEFEAT OF CUBANS Insurgents and Spanish Troops in : Collision. - MANY ARRESTS REPORTED AT HAVANA Martial Law Declared in San- tiago. GENERAL FOREIGN TOPICS MADRID, February 28.—According to of- ficial dispatches received here from Ha- vana, Cuba, the rebels in the province of Santiago de Cuba number about 120 men. It was added that the town of Baire nas declared in favor of the rebels, but a later dispatch from the official source announced that the insurrection at Baire had been quelled. It is also officially announced here that the Spanish troops defeated the band of rebels reported to have assembled in the province of Matanzas and these advices confirmed the report that Manuel Garcia, the notorious rebel leader, was killed dur- ing the engagement. The Spanish troops are actively pur- suing the rebels. Many Arrests at Havana. NEW YORK, February 28.-The Ward Line steamer Orisaba, which arrived this morning from Cuba, brings news that the whole island has been under martial law since February 24. Great excitement pre- vailed in Havana on Sunday morning last, owing to the arrest of the old Cuban gen- eral, Julio Sanguili, and about thirty mem- bers of the first families of Havana, who were imprisoned in the military fort, Cab- anas. It was reported that about three hundred persons who sympathized with the revolu- tionists were also arrested and imprisoned. There was no news from the interior of the island. It was stated that the people of the porthern portion of the island were in favor of Gen. Manuel Garcia taking charge of operations against the government, while the people of the southern part of the island were unfavorable to him and wanted another leader. - It was rumored that the threatened upris- ing of the Cuban r2volutionists had been betrayed by one of their own party, and the government took prompt measures to suppress the uprising by arresting Gen. Sanguili and hic immediate followers. Other Reports From Cuba. It is rumored at Tampa, Fla., that a Cu- ban general, at the head of five hundred men, had a skirmish witl. Spanish forces in the interior on Monday. W. J. Lewis of Scranton, Pa., who has arrived by steamer, left Havana on Mon- day. He said that on Saturday night he was awakened by the ringing of church bells, a firing of a few shots and what he thought was a general alarm. He could learn no particulars. ‘Three gener.ts of the former revolution— Trujilla, Aguerrire and Sanguili—were ar- rested at their homes in Havana on Sun- day before they could escape. The latter was a very brave general in the former war, and was very much feared by the Spaniards. ‘The home rule pai demands the re- lease of Trujillo, as he is their secretary, but it is likely that the government will laugh at them. A Havana dispatch, sent last night, says: Bands of insurgents are still in arms in the province of Matanzas, though in what numbers or with what success is unknown here. Martial law is enforced in the prov- ince, and no messages go back and forth save under government sanction. Disturbances are reported also in San- tiago de Cuba, and that city has been de- clared in a state of war. Marti, the revo- lutionary chief, and Gen. Gomez are re- ported to be on the island. Enthusinstic Cubans, Harman Hall, in New York, was crowded last night by the sympathizers in New York city of the Cuban revolutionists. The assemblage was very enthusiastic, and many of those present were ladies. The stage was decorated with Cuban national colors ahd a flag of the proposed republic of Porto Rico. The meeting was called to order by Juan Fraga, president cf the league of the revolutionary clubs in the United States. He introduced as the first speaker Senor Enrique ‘Trujillo, editor of the Cuban paper, “El Parvenir.” Other speakers were Senor J. Teneforte, Francisco Ayala and Gcnzalo de Quesada, At the close over 32,200 was raised, and will be used to purchase munitions of war to be sent to Cuba. HANOTAU M. S REGRETS. American Cattle Were Excluded, He. Says, Only When Found Necessary. PARIS, February 28.—Contrary to the cabled reports received here, the United States ambassador to France, Mr. James B. Eustis, has not received instructions to protest against the French exclusion of American cattle from this country. It seems that there is a misapprehension in the United States in regard to the scope of the decree, which applies only to Amer- ican live cattle and which does not affect tinned or dressed beef. The exact wording of the decree is: “Considering that contagious diseases which do noi exist in France are prevalent in the United States among animals of the bovine species and that cases have been established among animals imported to Europe from that country, it is necessary to take measures io prevent the introduc- tion of these diseases into our territory “Acccrdingly, upon the advice of the con- sulting committee on epizootics and on the report of the councillor of state, the di- rector of agriculture decrees that the im- gort into or transit through France of all animals of the bcvine species from the United States is pronibited, both by our land frontiers or by sex until otherwise ordered. ruary 24 will be allowed entry if healthy. It is learned that France took this step with the greatest reluctance. M. Han- ctaux, the minister of foreign affairs, says: “I, myself, was greatly opposed’ to the ue of the cecree, and it was only done after the minister of agriculture had as- sured us that there was pcsitive evidence that disease among the cattle landed ex- isted. “I am not willing to agree to any step which could be construed as unfriendly to the United States, but Germany, Belgium and England have already taken exactly the same precautions, and we are the last naticn to do sv.” Bluefields Report Denied. COLON, Colombia, February 28.—No con- firmation has reached here of the rumor that a British cruiser at Bluefields recently fired upon a sailing vessel supposed to be carrying contraband of war, which ves- sel was said to be flying the American flag. Japanese Armies Concentrating. CHEFOO, February 28—The Japanese are evacuating the advanced positions about Wel-Hal-Wel, and they have aban- doned Ning-Hal. The greater part of the Japanese army which has been operating on the Shan Tung peninsula has re-em- barked on board transports bound for Talcn-Wan, north of Port Arthur, on the opposite side of the Gulf of Pechili, Austria Will Go In. VIENNA, February 28—The Freemden- blat, a semi-official newspaper, says it is certain that Austria-Hungary will accept an invitation to join in an international monetary conference. Will Desert Rosebery. LONDON, February 28—The Exchange Telegraph Company says that the Red- mondite party does not make a secret of the fact that its members intend to vote against the government tonight, on the motion of the chancellor of the exchequer, Sir William Vernon Harcourt, to take all the time allotted to private members for the furtherance of government business. Personal Notes. LONDON, February 28—The United ~ INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS. -Page 12 Arte i Ky a titi ttt 2 a ARR ARAREROAATRARAANH RAE AARATR ERR RERRROAANKAAKAK SUBURBAN PROPERTY... UNDERTAKERS . 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He was born in 1824. « Vice Admiral Alexander Butler, C.B., has been appointed to the command of the China station, relieving Vice Admiral Sir E. Freemantle, K. C. B. VIENNA, February 28.—Emperor William has conferred upon Emperor Francis Joseph the rank of field marshal general in the German army. er The Douginss Obsequies. ‘To meet a general demand therefor, an extra edition of The Evening Star of Thurs- day, the 2st, containing details of the death of Frederick Douglass, has been printed; also an extra edition of Monday's issue, containing full particulars of the fu- neral services. addresses, etc. Copies of either or both may de had at the counter, either wrapped, ready for mailing, or open. Price, 2 cents each. —_——- Marriage Licenses. Marriage licenses have been issued to the following: Thos. H. Wallace and Ida O. Brown; John May, jr., and Bertha S, A, Waterholter; Warren P. H. Haynie and Si J. 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